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Registered Pharmacy

As part of the Frosts Pharmacy Group, a family run business established in 1925 by John Frost and now run by his grandson Stuart Gale, we are a fully registered UK pharmacy and adhere to the standards set by the General Pharmaceutical Council. We run successful high street pharmacies in Banbury and Oxford, in the UK, as well as our online chemist services.

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Dear customer,

Further to the distressing news about personal patient information being sold to third parties, I wanted to reassure all visitors to the site that any details submitted to Oxford Online Pharmacy are treated as confidential - at all times. Your personal information will never be passed on to anyone other than our medical staff.

Every member of our team is committed to delivering the best possible customer service so that you the can feel completely confident that you are getting the right advice and treatment for your needs, whether you are visiting us in one of our bricks and mortar pharmacies or you prefer to manage your healthcare needs online.

Should you have any concerns please feel free to give us a call on: 01295 262925 and we will do our utmost to answer any questions you may have.

Stuart Gale

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This means that you can purchase products from us discreetly, such as weight loss, hair loss, STD or erectile dysfunction products. As you would expect, our billing information is discreet too, ensuring you peace of mind.

In what is seen as the first major population based study, a group of researchers have discovered that a link between the consumption Vitamin D and a major risk of developing conditions like dementia. The older generation who do not consume enough of the vital vitamin could potentially double their risk of developing the debilitating condition.

Dementia is a term which is collectively used to cover a number of problems that exist in the brain. These underlying conditions all have an effect on the brain, with parts of the brain that control thoughts, language and memory all having the possibility of being affected by the disease. The most common form of this is Alzheimer’s disease, which is known worldwide.

The study, which was published in Neurology, have stated that having low concentrations of Vitamin D in your body are highly linked to the development of Alzheimer’s disease in many. The worrying part of this is that there are high levels of Vitamin D deficiency in a number of older adults, the group which is mostly at risk to suffer from diseases like dementia.

A report that looked into the diets of the population of the US discovered that a third of those do not have enough amount of Vitamin D in their diets. It’s also estimates that 8% of the population are currently running a risk of developing a Vitamin D deficiency. The Vitamin is obtained simply from exposure to the sunlight, along with adding various foods in your diet like eggs, cheese, milk and fish.

A strong link between Vitamin D and dementia

In order to carry out the study, the researchers had to test nearly 2,000 dementia-free people who were aged over 65. The Vitamin D levels found in the blood were all tested, with the participants being monitored by the researchers for nearly 6 years.

After they had been followed for this period, 171 of those who took part in the study developed dementia, with another 102 participants developing Alzheimer’s disease. The study found that those who took part with lower levels of Vitamin D were amazingly 53% more likely to develop a disease such as dementia. Those who had a severe deficiency were more than 125% more likely to develop the disease.

The similarities that can be found between dementia and Alzheimer’s were striking, as participants with lower levels of Vitamin D also stood a 70% risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Again, those who had a severe deficiency were represented with a risk of 120%.

The variables in the study had no effect on the overall outcome – as when smoking and alcohol were added to the mix, no change was to be found in the results.